Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Non-Catholics is the name applied by Romanists to all those who refuse to accept the papal primacy. It includes even those whom it acknowledges as properly constituted; as, e.g. the Eastern Church, etc. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Non-Being Non-existence or the non-existent; absence or piivation of existence or the existent; absence of determinateness or what is thus indeterminate; unreality of the unreal — either lack of any reality or what is so lacking (absence, negation, or privation of reality), or lack of a particular kind of reality or what is so lacking; … Continue reading “Non-Being”

Non-Adorantes And Adorantes are classes of Unitarians, and their peculiar views and history are so intimately connected with that branch of heretical Christianity of which they constitute a part, that we defer their treatment to the articles SOCINIANS SEE SOCINIANS and UNITARIANS SEE UNITARIANS (q.v.). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Non (Heb. id. , Sept. ), a different form (1Ch 7:27) of the name elsewhere given as NUN SEE NUN (q.v.), the father of Joshua. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Non non (, non): 1Ch 7:27 the King James Version and the Revised Version margin. See NUN. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia … Continue reading “Non”

Nomus, leading personage at Constantinople Nomus, a leading personage at Constantinople in the latter years of Theodosius II., with whom he was all-powerful- (Labbe, Concil. iv. 407). Nomus filled in succession all the highest offices in the state. In 443 he was “magister officiorum” (Cod. Theod. Nov. p. 14, 1); consul in 445; patrician in … Continue reading “Nomus, leading personage at Constantinople”

Nomos was the name of a personification of law among the ancient Greeks, and described as exercising authority over gods and men. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Nomophylax keeper of the books of the law, a Greek Church officer, whose function is indicated by his name. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Nomocanons is a term used to designate the compilations containing all special legislation for ecclesiastical purposes. SEE CANON LAW. In the Eastern Church the expression was used to designate ecclesiastical rules, and civil (imperial) laws. There were at first separate collections of each. The Greek canons were originally arranged in chronological order, but were subsequently … Continue reading “Nomocanons”

Nomocanon (From the Greek nomos, law, and kanon, a rule) A collection of ecclesiastical law, the elements of which are borrowed from secular and canon law. When we recall the important place given to ecclesiastical discipline in the imperial laws such as the Theodosian Code, the Justinian collections, and the subsequent “Novellæ”, and “Basilica”, the … Continue reading “Nomocanon”

Nomination The various methods of designating persons for ecclesiastical benefices or offices have been described under BENEFICE; BISHOP; ELECTION; CANONICAL INSTITUTION. All these methods are more or less included in the ordinary sense of the term nomination; but in its strict canonical sense, nomination is defined as the designation of a person for an ecclesiastical … Continue reading “Nomination”